Ask HN: What paid applications do you use?

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In the world filled with free and open-source software - if you're paying for an app - probably it's really good. What's on your top 5 list? It can be a desktop or mobile app. The only rule: useful for a dev.

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- AI Writer - my preferred MD app, simply beautiful

- Bartender - removes clutter from macOS icon bar

- Paper - for doodling and fleshing out ideas on my iPad

- Brilliant.org - my preferred way to brush up my maths skills

- TeuxDeux as a simple and timeless todo list

Does Fastmail count? Otherwise, none! \o/

The main apps I use every day are: vim, terminator, hexchat, Evolution (with the EWS plugin) and ssh. All running under Cinnamon in either Fedora, Debian or Ubuntu OSes.

Office 365.

I used to have Dropbox and evernote, but switched to paper and a fountain pen, and OneDrive.

Also, pinegrow web editor because... frontend is very time consuming for backend people like me.

My list:

* Bear for taking notes.

* Brain.fm for deep work.

* Headspace for meditation.

* Hemingway for writing.

* Grammarly for grammar correction.

- Sheet2Site: backend from google sheet - Ghost: blogging - Zapier: connecting forms and google sheets - Checkout Page: take payments without code

Things 3: note taking

Spectre/Halide: photography

Cardhop: contact management

Carrot: weather

Superhuman: super email

Stardew Valley: mobile game

Headspace: meditation

The Guardian: news

also other subscriptions include: Spotify/Apple Music, Protonmail...

For PC: Sublime Text - code/text editing, IntelliJ IDEA- code editing

For smartphone: Prompt 2 - SSH client

Standard Notes, its search and tag features have basically replaced the need for OneNote

Winrar

Simplepush.io would be the only one worth mentioning.

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